I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 10: Snake and Crow

On the way to the shrine, there are few pedestrians.

When passing by the convenience store, Kazuma noticed that there was no one inside - there was an OPEN sign on the door.

So I muttered to Ma: "This kind of convenience store is a chain, right? No one at the front desk will not be found by the head office and deduct money?"

"The mountain is high and the emperor is far away." Yuzao said, "Maybe people are restocking the shelves..."

"No, I was chatting at the dessert shop across the street." Someone interrupted Tamamo.

He and Ma Xunsheng looked around and saw an uncle in a uniform of a convenience store, standing next to a waiter in a uniform of a snack shop.

The waiters in such dessert shops in Tokyo are usually little girls in their 20s, and the uniforms are mostly cute dress designs, and the uniform design here is in the same vein as the Tokyo shop, but it is fast to wear it. A forty mom.

After meeting his eyes, the uncle said, "You two came very early. Usually, the peak season doesn't start until about a week later."

The waiter aunt smiled: "Maybe it's because this year is very hot. I read on the news that it has something to do with that."

"El Niño, El Niño."

"That's right, that's it," the aunt nodded again and again. "The TV said it was the phenomenon of the sea becoming hot. I guess it was because the sea was too hot to go into the sea, so the people at the beach had to come to the mountains to enjoy the shade."

He Ma was about to complain, but the uncle spoke first: "How can the sea be so hot that it can't go into the sea? Are you kidding me? It's not "Japan Sinking"."

"There is no seawater in the sunken place that Japan can't go into the sea." Kazuma took the opportunity to interject, "If the seawater is so hot, the heat released will turn the world into a sauna, and human beings will become extinct. ."

"Will human beings go extinct?" Auntie was taken aback.

The uncle of the convenience store waved his hand: "No, no, no, by the way, you two are going to the convenience store to buy something?"

He Ma shook his head, then pointed at the torii gate at the foot of the shrine: "We have to go to the shrine to see it. It is said that the rubbing cream sold there is very effective."

"It works very well. It is said that it is made from Kappa's scalp, which is very cool," said the uncle.

Kazuma glanced at Tamamo.

Tamamo: "Kappa's scalp died from bruises."

——You wait for me!

While complaining about his desires with Ma, the convenience store uncle laughed: "What an interesting little girl, aren't you guys from college? Look at your age, how about dressing up... um, nothing. Undoubtedly Tokyoites.

"Last year we came here to a group of college students from Tokyo, looking for some hammer snake, there is a little girl who knows all kinds of monsters very well, she is simply 'Dr. Monster'."

The mallet snake is a legendary creature in Japan, also known as the earth dragon. After the war, there were many so-called sighting reports, but no evidence was found. The Japanese people's search for the mallet snake has not stopped. It smells like the Loch Ness monster. .

In addition, Japan likes to call people who know a lot as Dr. XX. The doctor here is not a degree, but simply takes the literal meaning of words: a learned person.

Kazuma: "We are also college students, from Tokyo."

"You are also looking for a hammer snake?" The convenience store uncle frowned, "Last year, the group of college students were careless when climbing the mountain. Two people fell off the cliff, one was killed and the other injured, and the injured one seemed to be in a vegetative state. Be careful, the mountains are not like cities, and a small injury in the mountains may cause death due to lack of timely treatment."

He Ma and Tamamo looked at each other.

"Can you elaborate?" As a future police officer, Kazuma began to ask for details.

"I don't know the specifics. I work in a convenience store and I didn't participate in the search and rescue. Anyway, when I brought it down the mountain, there was no one, and the other one couldn't move like a log. The little girl Dr. Monster was crying. .”

He Ma raised his eyebrows.

The aunt of the dim sum shop used the aunt's inherent skill of "talking gossip" and added a wave of information to Hema: "This matter was suppressed by the people from the Tourism Promotion Association, and it is said that they gave those college students a lot of compensation to seal up. ."

The uncle of the convenience store frowned: "People are also doing it for everyone's sake. If this is spread, I'm afraid no one will come to our hot springs in a few years. Without tourism income, we only rely on the point of planting. The income from crops is going to return to the hard days of the past.”

Aunt pouted and stopped talking.

Kazuma: "Before the tourism development, did it suffer here?"

"Look at what you said, it really is the eldest young master in the city, aren't farmers always suffering?" The uncle of the convenience store laughed at himself.

Kazuma: "The price of agricultural products in the city is so high, I thought..."

"Damn, in order to maintain that high price, the Agricultural Association forbids us to produce too much, and whoever has many varieties will not buy his products, nor help him purchase seeds and agricultural machinery..."

The uncle of the convenience store sighed: "We are too far from Tokyo. Otherwise, we can try to drive to Tokyo to sell by ourselves, and completely beat the agricultural association. Although the price is low, we can sell as much as possible. How much, even if you count the gas money, you can make more."

He Ma said "oh", and he suddenly remembered the pumpkin he and Qingliu threw when they were running away.

According to the uncle, it is a good thing that Qingliu and her family Baifeng help farmers sell melons?

No wonder the melon farmer was so respectful to Qing Liu.

Kazuma wanted to continue asking about the mountaineering accident last year, but the uncle from the convenience store stood up and patted his butt: "Okay, I should go back to work too, I saw Grandma Noda walking this way. Hurry up when you go to the shrine, because Bozi has to take care of her sick grandmother, she will leave early from time to time."

While talking, the uncle walked towards the convenience store.

He Ma saw an old lady pushing a wheelchair walking here not far away, with a shopping basket on the wheelchair—she probably used the wheelchair as a trolley and crutches.

This is probably Grandma Noda.

The old lady smiled when the uncle opened the door of the convenience store, "Yamada, you are being lazy again."

When Kazuma wanted to say that Japan is really full of Yamada, he heard the uncle sigh helplessly: "Just say my surname is not Yamada... Oh, Grandma Noda, you are still the same, right?"

"Yes, I've been bothering you for a long time." The grandmother pushed the wheelchair to the convenience store, pulled on the handbrake, and put most of her body weight on the wheelchair.

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The uncle of the convenience store, not named Yamada, picked up the shopping basket on the wheelchair and went into the store.

Grandma Noda turned her head to look at Kazuma and Yuzao, and said with a smile, "Yo, whose descendant is this back?"

As soon as He Ma opened his mouth, the aunt of the dim sum shop rushed to answer: "They are not young people from the town, they are college students from Tokyo."

"Ah? Students? Today's students are growing so fast, so tall, and this girl, tsk." The old lady was stunned.

He Ma also glanced at Yuzao, and her silhouette really made people "tsk".

"Did you guys come back for the summer vacation?" Grandma Noda continued to nag, "We can catch the big unicorns that Tokyo doesn't have here."

It seems that the old lady is completely confused, and regards Kazuma and the others as elementary school students who went back to the countryside for the summer vacation.

This is quite common in Japan.

In the beginning, it was only the early stage of economic take-off. In order to lighten the burden during summer vacations, urban families sent their children back to their grandparents in the countryside to live with them.

Later, Japanese scholars made up a legitimate reason for this behavior: let children get close to nature and receive natural education.

Later, this became an educational standard. Japanese elementary schools began to arrange various summer vacation topics during the summer vacation, allowing students to observe and record the flowers and plants they planted, or keep a diary of the insects they raised as part of their summer homework.

This kind of thing has gradually become the "Ye Qing Hui" of the Japanese, which directly spawned the series of games "My Summer Vacation", and also influenced games such as "Ranch Story" and "Pokémon".

However, Kazuma glanced at Yuzao again, just how confused her curvy old lady must be to treat her as a primary school student.

At this time, the uncle of the convenience store took out a basket full of things and put it on the wheelchair: "Okay. See you next week."

Grandma Noda took out a stack of banknotes in parts and pieces and handed it to the uncle of the convenience store: "Thank you, Yamada."

The uncle hesitated, but in the end he chose not to complain about the old lady and accepted the money.

The old lady released the handbrake of the wheelchair, pushed the wheelchair and circled in front of the convenience store to make a U-turn. Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something and turned her head to look at Kazuma: "By the way, child, this is not Tokyo, it is very dangerous at night. Yes. No matter how much fun you have, when you hear the loudspeaker of the village office start playing that...that's da~da~da~"

The old lady made up the melody with different levels.

"From the New World." He Ma directly said the song title.

"That's right, that's it. This kid is so smart!" Grandma Noda nodded again and again, "When you hear this, you must go home. Bad kids who don't go home will be taken away by the demon fox living in the mountains. The demon fox, I like to eat the hearts of children the most."

Tamamo smiled: "Okay, we got it."

"Especially the heart of a beautiful girl like you!" Grandma Noda looked at Tamamo and exclaimed, "She likes it the most!"

"Don't worry, and Ma Jun will protect me." Tamamo said and waved to the old lady, "We still have to go to the shrine, and if we don't, the shrine will be closed."

"Okay, go to the shrine to pay homage, and the Lord of the Shrine will bless you." Grandma Noda waved her hand, turned and pushed her wheelchair slowly back along the way she came.

He and Ma Mu saw the old lady away, turned to Tamamo and said, "Let's go to the shrine as soon as possible, it seems that we should pay homage to the **** of the shrine, otherwise we will be eaten by the evil fox. ."

Jinguji Yuzao pouted and put on an awkward expression: "I don't know how to eat."

"Isn't it? You should eat people often, right?"

"No, it's not Elder Tang. In fact, there is a paradox here, haven't you noticed? Generally, according to the settings, the big monster can transform into a human for a long time, and the small monster can't maintain the human shape, which means that it can Transforming into human form is more noble, so the monsters will work hard in this direction, right?

"Theoretically, monsters shouldn't eat people. After all, no one -- no monster would go to great lengths to look like food."

After thinking about it with Ma, it seems to be the case.

As humans, Kiryu and Ma don't want to look like pork sausages.

It's impossible for a monster to expect to become his own ration.

Tamamo changed the subject: "The college students who came here last year, I don't know which university they are from."

Kazuma: "Come and look for the hammer snake, and there is a girl called Dr. Yokai in the group. It feels like a supernatural or monster-related fan club. It can't be an ancient creature fan club, right?"

"If it's a fan club in the direction of ancient creatures, there shouldn't be Dr. Yokai mixed in." Tamamo said.

Kazuma: "Maybe... it's another school's new weird talk seminar?"

"How come, there shouldn't be a second one for this strange research society." Tamamo mercilessly complained about the society he was usurping.

"But don't you think that what we are doing now is a bit like the beginning of a new weird talk?"

He paused with Ma, glanced at the empty streets, and continued: "A small town far away from the world, with peculiar folk customs, incidents, and a mysterious grandma who gave us something like a warning. , all alive."

Tamamo raised her eyebrows: "It seems... it's true."

"And this cicada's chirping is very suitable for setting the atmosphere, isn't it?" He Ma added.

Tamamo was about to answer, but suddenly stopped and looked up.

He Ma also stopped and followed her gaze curiously, so he saw the loudspeaker of the village office on the top of the telephone pole in front.

"Yes, as well as Dvorak and "From the New World", this is also particularly suitable for rendering the atmosphere of horror." He retracted his gaze and said so.

Tamamo: "No, I'm not looking at a trumpet."

He Ma looked up at the horn again, and this time he finally noticed the crow standing on the wire, which seemed to be one size larger than a normal crow.

The crow and the horse looked at each other, not at all afraid.

Many crows in Tokyo are not afraid of people, but that is what Tokyo people are used to.

In theory, crows can act in groups just like pigeons. A single crow falls on a telephone pole and stares straight at people. It always gives people the feeling that it is a familiar or simply a monster. .

So and Ma asked: "Do you know each other?"

"I don't know. The kotengu I know was killed by a ghost."

Kazuma was startled: "Wait, can the Ravengo be killed by a ghost?"

"Yes."

"He should be a powerful monster, right? What kind of monster can kill a kotengu?"

"A Phantom fighter of the Air Self-Defense Force's Yoyogi Flying Team."

Is that the ghost! !

Tamazao's face showed sadness: "His last words before his death were: 'Double J79 turbojets are so powerful!'"

That must be fierce!

"'I admit that humans are stronger, ah, I really want to try flying at twice the speed of sound, ah.'"

Kazuma: "Wait for me, what happened to the last 'Kaoh'?"

"Shit, try to use onomatopoeia to express the scene at that time." Tamamo said.

You are serious! Dead man - dead demon hello!

He Ma was about to complain when the crow on the top of the telephone pole croaked, flapped its wings, and flew away under the gaze of the two of them.

A few black feathers slowly fell from the sky.

He Ma caught a feather and handed it to Tamamo: "Can you tell if this is a common crow?"

"I can't see it." Tamamo replied in seconds, "I used to see it, but now I'm 18 years old, even if I'm always 17 years old. Even if I go for a B-ultrasound or something, it looks like it should be fine. Just normal humans. It's getting harder and harder to tell the weird."

He Ma pursed his lips, brought the feathers in his hands closer to him, and observed them carefully.

Indeed, it is no different from ordinary feathers.

As long as Tamamo's hair doesn't change back to her ear state, she can only touch the hair of a beautiful girl that has been carefully cared for~IndoMTL.com~ He Ma was about to stuff the feathers into his pocket, but Tamamo stopped him: "Don't. Carrying this thing with you, although divination is useless now, it is still no problem to find the location of your 'personal belongings'. I often divination where my glasses are thrown."

Kazuma looked at the glasses on the bridge of Tamamo's nose, and the image of Tamamo who couldn't find the glasses and had to do a divination -- well, kind of cute.

Yuzao Liu frowned slightly: "What are you laughing at, it's normal to find glasses, especially when you're wearing them."

More, cuter?

He Ma scratched his head, and in order to keep the image of Tamamo in his mind from collapsing, he decided to change the subject: "This time, in this situation, should I ask Ah Mao to send the knife? Which knife is more suitable for slashing? Exorcism?"

"No need." Yuzao shook his head, "For the strong human beings to slay demons, a wooden knife is enough. It has always been the case. Only the weak must rely on famous swords such as An Gang Tong Ziqi."

He was speechless. He felt that there were many stories hidden in Yuzao's words. He was about to ask in detail, but she looked at her watch and urged: "It's getting late, go to the shrine to have a look, and then go back to the hotel to blow Air conditioner."

He Ma realized that he was sweating profusely, and nodded: "Okay, hurry up, I'm almost dehydrated, I hope the shrine has water to drink."

The two stepped forward again and walked towards the shrine.

The big crow that just flew away flew back and landed on the top of the horn, quietly watching the backs of the two of them.